The Oxford University Press has declared “Trump” to be Children’s Word of the Year after analyzing 131,798 short stories written by children taking part in a BBC competition.
The publishing house said in a statement that the word was chosen because of its significant increase in use – 839 percent – and the wide variety of contexts in which it was deployed, it is reported.
It’s the first time that a name, or proper noun, has won ‘word of the year’ in either the children’s or adult categories. Last year, the Children’s Word was, “refugee”.
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The contest asked kids to compose an original work of fiction on any subject or theme in no more than 500 words.
As a result, the word ‘trump’ appeared 2,296 times in the 2017 stories-as a noun (a trump), a proper noun (Trump the name) and as a verb (trumped, trumping), according to a news report.
Children also got creative, using the word in more than 100 mixes such as character names – Boggle Trump, Snozzle Trump, Trumpdiddlydumper and prefixes, suffixes and other fixes to become Trumpelstilskin, Trumpido, Trumpeon, Trumpyness and Trumpwinningtastic.
Runner-up words included Brexit, fake news, social media, vlog and super.